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January Transfer window 2012

Megadrive Man

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I'm getting it, not sure you do though in your made up reality, let me ask again, what players did we attract because we were playing in the CL as opposed to those we would not if we were not?    

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Hleb released by Barca meaning he can sign for someone after the window shuts

 

always liked him but the last thing we need is a player who bottles it infront of goal constantly

 

Didn't he spend a season on loan in Birmingham's physio room a year or so ago? He's got a record to match Kieron Dyer's in terms of minutes on the pitch.

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So ... it doesn't look like we'll get anybody - which is quite a show of faith on the current squad or an indictment on Comolli/Dalglish's transfer savvy from the owners, depends on how you look at it. Though to be honest, if I were FSG, after how ridiculous the last two transfer windows panned out, I wouldn't spend anything either.

 

Back to the drawing board, time to face the problems head-on. Can they teach donkeys new tricks? Can they force Carroll to take extra training sessions? There is NO aspect of his game that CANNOT be improved in spades. Can they give Downing some cojones? Hypnotist? Testosterone injection, perhaps? :) Can they coach Henderson to be more mindful how to run and how to use the ball? Can they get Adam to be less selfish and and less reckless?

 

We have a big coaching staffs. I am fairly certain they've been doing all that already, but may be a little more attentiveness?

 

Or may be we should concentrate on winning the League Cup, forget the league and focus on bringing through the youths. May be hopes are better placed with Sterling, Coady, Morgan, Suso, Wisdom, e.t.c... than with Carroll, Downing, Adam...

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what the fuck. thought that morrison cunt was the best player coming through united academy? joining west ham now.

 

For the extremely interested.... Andy Mitten is supposedly a respected journalist covering our rivals...

 

"Andy Mittens column in english:

Most Manchester United youth and reserve players don’t establish themselves in the first team because they’re not good enough.

 

There’s often talk of a 14-year-old being the next Ryan Giggs or Paul Scholes, but the reality is that most young professionals get released and drop down a division or two before starting their career proper. After the disappointment of leaving Old Trafford, they tend to be honest enough to admit that they weren’t up to the standards of United’s first team, but the education they had at Carrington put them in excellent standing for what lay ahead. Not every person who goes to Oxbridge can go onto be Prime Minister.

 

Others get injuries at key junctures in their career. After a year out, they return to find out that someone a year younger is now ahead of them in the pecking order.

 

It’s especially frustrating, then, when a player does have the talent and the right physical attributes to succeed but still manages to screw it up.

 

Ravel Morrison has been the most exciting prospect in United’s youth ranks in recent years. He’s hugely talented young footballer, yet he’s also a got so much baggage that the club, after years of trying to correct his behaviour, have started to view him as a liability. United supported the 18-year-old through his court appearances for the serious charge of witness intimidation. Fans supported him, without much thought for the victim of his crime. Fans have different rules for talented footballers.

 

United hoped that his behaviour would improve and thought hard about how they could help this talented young Mancunian reach his potential. They considered making him live in the stable family environment of an established first teamer, though Morrison was unlikely to have viewed living with Gary Neville with the same enthusiasm as his manager.

 

Morrison does not keep good company, though the same can be said of other footballers. Is it a defence that they are often young and impressionable? Is it a defence that he’s had a difficult upbringing?

 

Many footballers grow up in the poorest social class. Wayne Rooney grew up on an estate where social problems are rife. Lads around him got into problems, yet that didn’t mean Rooney did. Rooney had the guidance to listen and learn on and off the field without ever deserting his mates. He even hung around on his bike near the local shops with them after making his Everton debut.

 

United feel that Morrison does not respond. Not to coaches telling that he has to be training on time, not to the role models he sees on a football pitch when he does show for training. Aside from telling them that he’s going to break into the first team, those players say he only pays attention if the talk isn’t about football. Morrison is consistently seen in the wrong places and with the wrong people. Fans are wondering why, if he’s just a talent, had he played three games in the Carling Cup so far. Lionel Messi had played over 50 games in Barca’s first team by the time he was Morrison’s age. Talk and reality are very different.

 

Sir Alex Ferguson rightly prides himself on how he handles young players. He said that Paul Gascoigne’s career would have been very different had he joined United, but even Ferguson has had enough of Morrison. Lose that at United and there’s no future.

 

There are other reasons. Morrison is not the type of person Manchester United, a company with image conscious American owners, want to be associated. United’s fastest growing revenue stream is through sponsorship. Multi-national sponsors want their name attached to a world-wide brand noted for success and glory, with players who are stars and role models. The club will do more background checks on future signings because they don’t want skeletons in cupboards damaging the United ‘brand.’

 

Nor do they want it associated with wayward criminals – or serial adulterers for that matter. They’re happy for a player to get a second chance, but a third, fourth and fifth chance?

 

Morrison gives off the attitude of someone who doesn’t care. Taking him away from Manchester might do him a big favour. He might make it as a top footballer in spite of himself, he might be one of many who is left telling the story of how good he could have been.

 

And what a shame that would be."

 

Basically reads that Ferguson has given up on him because of his attitude and off-the field behaviour for those not bothering to read the longer version

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